A computational framework for prioritization of events in fault tree analysis under interval-valued probabilities

IEEE Transactions on Reliability

Volumn 62, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 583-595

  Toppila, Antti ^a   Salo, Ahti ^a  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Epistemic uncertainty; fault tree analysis; interval valued probability; prioritization; probabilistic safety assessment

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL FRAMEWORK; DIRECTED ACYCLIC GRAPH (DAG); EPISTEMIC UNCERTAINTIES; INTERVAL VALUED PROBABILITY; LOWER AND UPPER BOUNDS; PRIORITIZATION; PROBABILISTIC SAFETY ASSESSMENT; RESIDUAL HEAT REMOVAL SYSTEMS;

ALGORITHMS; NUCLEAR REACTORS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAFETY ENGINEERING; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

FAULT TREE ANALYSIS;

EID: 84883454670     PISSN: 00189529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TR.2013.2270401     Document Type: Article

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